[betterthanbaird]

Stekelenberg, Coleman, Baines, Jagielka, Bolasie, Williams, Lennon, Schneiderlin, Barkley and, er, Lukaku.

Barry was voted the best player in the team of this lot.

If we get him for £1m, this a hell of a signing.

If he's good enough, he's young enough.

He wasn't player of the season last season, it was the one before, so they didn't have quite a few of those players. We've seen with Lescott how much worse an ageing player can get in one year.

If we think the kids will actually be good enough to start for us in the premier league one day and this lets them go out on loan then I'm not against it, provided that Barry is mainly here to thicken out the squad and he won't be starting too regularly.

I know the most exciting signings don't work out a lot of the time but it would be nice for the club to announce the signing of someone young and talented we can get excited about.

I think our squad is thin but quite decent and a couple of good signings could still make this an excellent window.